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all my "actions" disappeared in photoshop
all my action suddnly disapeared!
i just used them yestarday, and now all gone (not even in photoshop presets),
is there a way to restore them? there where a lot and important ones....
Stephen MarshCorrect answer
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Jun 18, 2025 9:45 PM UTC
Loaded .atn files or newly created and unsaved action sets are temporarily stored in the Actions Palette presets file (Actions Palette.psp). This file should be considered temporary and may be subject to corruption or loss, which is why making an explicit save to .atn file for each individual action set is strongly advised
One should manually save out each action set "folder" individually to a .atn file using the menu on the upper right of the action panel window.
Sadly, this happens a lot, so I wrote about the issue in detail at my blog:
https://prepression.blogspot.com/2017/01/photoshop-custom-action-file-backup.html
There's a very slim chance of .psp file recovery if you haven't saved .atn versions (if you have backups of the system including the .psp). Good luck!
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